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Practice Time 5

A. Underline the verbs in these sentences and state whether they are transitive or intransitive.

1. The children have been playing all morning. _______________
2. The car stopped abruptly. _______________
3. That necklace looks beautiful. _______________

4. The birds are flying in the sky. _______________
5. The ship sank to the bottom of the sea. _______________

6. The people left the war zone for safer places. _______________

B. Fill the blanks with suitable irregular verbs from those given in brackets.

1. We felt the earthquake as the building ______________ for 30 seconds. (shake/shook/
shaken)
2. You should have _______________ the mess that was there last night. (saw/had seen/
seen)
3. We _______________ the entire vacation by the sea. (spend/spent/had spend)

4. Let’s _______________ the first train out of here. (take/took/taken)
5. My brother _______________ his wallet at home and had to come all the
way back. (leave/left/leaving)

6. Mrs Wiston _______________ the lizard out of the window. (throw/threw/thrown)

C. Form verbs from the given words.
1. modern ________________ 2. apology ________________

3. equal ________________ 4. fantasy ________________
5. fright ________________ 6. soft ________________

7. bright ________________ 8. black ________________
9. thick ________________ 10. pure ________________

Critical Thinking
Vocabulary

Fill in the boxes with words closely related to the given verbs.
1. travel

2. arrange Verbs

3. solve

4. invent

5. adjust

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